Artists

Jana Kopfová

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Mathematical Institute of the Silesian University

Opava, Czech Republic

jana.kopfova@math.slu.cz

https://janakopfova.wixsite.com/pre-radost/blank-nd378

Statement

As a child, I dreamed to study mathematics and arts. I became a profesional mathematician and my love of arts remained my hobby. I am trying to spread the beauty of Mathematics through all what I do - through my lectures, through math circles to high school students, through animated movies about Math, which I helped to create, and lately also through Silk paintings. I love flowers and geometrical designs and playing with the technique a colors.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Chagall's Interwoven  spirals'

Chagall's Interwoven spirals

21 x 14 x 1 cm

Silk painting

2015

Spirals woven together in harmony. Inspired by Chagall's windows in a church in Mainz in connection with spiral attractors of differential equations.
Image for entry 'Spiral triangulations'

Spiral triangulations

20 x 20 x 1 cm

Silk painting

2016

This work is an expression of harmony found in nature or in a relationship between people and the beauty of geometry in connection with triangulations - as a method of finding numerical solutions of differential equations. Simple things woven together through geometrical ideas create enough freedom for each individual journey in harmony with others.